Across
- 3. ____________ is at the heart of First Nations society because it is the glue that binds culture, country, and community together. It is a way of being, how a person identifies themselves with country and with whom they belong. (7 letters)
- 5. Red pigment used for painting and ceremonies. (5 letters)
- 7. Native marsupial whose name comes from the Noongar word ‘banggany’ or ‘wampat’. (6 letters)
- 9. The earliest indigenous art was paintings or engravings called __________ art. (4 letters)
- 10. Spirit ancestor and giant reptile central to Dreamtime creation stories across Australia. (7,7 letters)
- 14. Traditional tool used for hunting or digging. (9 letters)
- 16. In coastal areas, __________ were often fashioned into knives and scrapers in place of stone tools. (9 letters)
- 19. The creation period from the very beginning or “The _____________”. (9 letters)
- 20. Australian Rules Football is inspired by a traditional Aboriginal game, called Marn Grook, that uses the hide from what animal as a ball? (6 letters)
Down
- 1. Musical instrument made from a tree trunk hollowed by termites. (10 letters)
- 2. Perth’s original indigenous name. (7 letters)
- 4. Ancient paths and stories told in song’s, dances and art helped Aboriginal people navigate vast distances. What are these paths called? (9 letters)
- 6. ___________ ceremonies have been used in rituals by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to assist in cleansing areas and people of bad spirits. (5 letters)
- 8. Each colour in the Aboriginal flag represents an important symbol. The __________ colour represents the Aboriginal people of Australia. (5 letters)
- 11. Containers made from the following materials are used to carry what substance? Folded and pleated barks and palm fronds, bark buckets sealed with beeswax, woven baskets lined with beeswax. (5 letters)
- 12. Australian Aboriginal people were __________ people (moving from place to place rather than settling in one location). (7 letters)
- 13. Famous Aboriginal art style using repetitive points of paint, heavily associated with western Desert artists. (3,8 letters)
- 15. Within the Noongar nation, there are different family groups or clans.What is the name of the people whose traditional Country covers the city of Perth? (7 letters)
- 17. “Derbal Yerrigan” is the traditional Noongar name for what in Perth? (4,5 letters)
- 18. Aboriginal people were Australia’s very first scientists. What did they use to map the seasons, predict the weather, and navigate across the country? (5 letters)